I agree. I played bard in XI and loved being a hard-support. I don't play it here because it's basically a pseudo-ranger.

They keep going on and on about how it's support/dps but if you look at something like Bard's new skills there's maybe 1 you could call a support skill and it really sucks - single target single debuff pre esuna? Puhlease.

I think they've locked themselves into the classic mmo triangle too hard and made the classes in each role too homogenous.